Chapter 15, Problem 4PROB

Each business day, on average, a company writes checks totaling $37,500 to pay its suppliers. The usual clearing time for the checks is six days. Meanwhile, the company is receiving payments from its customers each day, in the form of checks, totaling $48,500. The cash from the payments is available to the firm after four days.   a. Calculate the company’s disbursement float, collection float, and net float. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) b. Calculate the company's disbursement float, collection float, and net float, if the collected funds were available in two days instead of four. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)

Each business day, on average, a company writes checks totaling $37,000 to pay its suppliers. The usual clearing time for the checks is three days. Meanwhile, the company is receiving payments from its customers each day, in the form of checks, totaling $48,000. The cash from the payments is available to the firm after two days.   a. Calculate the company’s disbursement float, collection float, and net float. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) b. Calculate the company's disbursement float, collection float, and net float, if the collected funds were available in one day instead of two. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)

Each business day, on average, a company writes checks totaling $36,500 to pay its suppliers. The usual clearing time for the checks is five days. Meanwhile, the company is receiving payments from its customers each day, in the form of checks, totaling $47,500. The cash from the payments is available to the firm after three days.   a. Calculate the company’s disbursement float, collection float, and net float. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) b. Calculate the company's disbursement float, collection float, and net float, if the collected funds were available in two days instead of three. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)

If Service World has $1,950 cash, $400 of government Treasury bills purchased last month with a six-week maturity, and $940 of cash set aside for legal reasons, how much will the company report on the balance sheet as “Cash and Cash Equivalents”?

Yoxo Company writes checks totaling P3,000. These checks clear in 7 days. Simultaneously, the company receives P1,700. The cash is available in 2 days on average. Calculate the disbursement, the collection, and the net float.

Taehyung Company reported a balance of P258,000 in its Cash account at the end of the month.  There were P120,000 deposits in transit and P90,000 outstanding checks. The bank statement showed a balance of P300,000, service charges of P36,000 and the proceeds of a note collected by the bank for the company.  The note had a face value of P90,000. The interest on the note collected by the bank was

Modos Company has deposited $4,080 in checks received from customers. It has written $1,540 in checks to its suppliers. The initial bank and book balance was $430. If $3,550 of its customers' checks have cleared, but only $420 of its own, calculate its float.

Ted's Toys just reconciled its bank account and has $12,300 in outstanding deposits and $31,400 in checks outstanding. The firm's checkbook has a positive balance. The firm sells on a cash basis only and deposits its receipts on a daily basis. The deposited funds are available to the firm the following day. The firm writes and mails checks on a daily basis also. These checks generally clear the bank in three days. What do you know about the firm's float given this information?  A.  The firm has disbursements float but no collection float.   B.  The collection float exceeds the disbursement float.   C.  The firm has a net collection float.   D.  The disbursement float exceeds the collection float.   E.  Since transactions occur daily, the firm has no float.

Archer Arrow Company examined its cash management policy and found that it takes an average of 5 days for the checks that the company writes to reach its bank and thus be deducted from the checking account balance. On the other hand, it takes an average of 4 days from the time the company receives the checks from its customers until the fund becomes available for use at the bank. On the average, Archer writes a total of P70,000 per day and it receives from customers a total of P80,000 per day. Compute the disbursement float. Compute the collection float. Compute the net float.